A collaborative effort between researchers in the United States and Italy has resulted in a novel technique to rapidly assess the boundaries between grains in polycrystalline materials.
Look closely enough and you’ll find crystals in a number of technologies and devices, including batteries, medical implants, and semiconductors. Understanding the properties of crystalline materials is vital to continued advancement, but often the amount of time and money needed to analyze these properties can have a negative impact on new developments.
Johns Hopkins engineers have utilized a new method to probe the stoichiometry and stability of protein complexes in biological membranes.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found a direct, significant correlation between structure and activation for FGF receptors in response to FGF ligands. Their findings have been reported in the January 2016 issue of Nature Communications.
An extensive study by an interdisciplinary research group suggests that the deformation properties of nanocrystals are not much different from those of the Earth’s crust.
Johns Hopkins researchers have collaborated with an international team to develop a novel technique to remove defects from metals.
Johns Hopkins engineers have developed the first self-healing, printable, and flexible organic field effect transistor (OFET).
Using a novel processing technique, Johns Hopkins engineers have fabricated the first bicontinuous metal-metal nanocomposite.
Johns Hopkins engineers collaborated with UCLA to develop nanostructures to increase the efficiency and durability of fuel cells.
Johns Hopkins University engineers have demonstrated a record increase in efficiency for an n-type polymer semiconductor through the combination of a new polymer electron-transporting semiconductor and a solid additive.
